ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to describe the criminal activity of the subjects over the courses of their lives using the parameters of criminal activity: age of onset, length of the criminal trajectory (duration), number of crimes committed in each year of their adult life (annual prevalence), and number of offenders in the sample (cumulative prevalence). In addition, a number of hypotheses on the course of these trajectories and, to a very limited degree, the relationship of these trajectories with other variables have been verified. The analysis covers only those crimes for which information was entered in the National Criminal Register.
It is intended to show the criminal trajectories of the research group: when they began, if they were one-off actions or lasted for an extended period (and how numerous each trajectory of this group is), their intensity, and if and how they change over the course of a person's life.
